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Liberals questioned George W Bush's legitimacy and wanted him to fail, writes Michael Tomasky, so what's the difference between those Bush haters and the birthers, teabaggers, and "paranoid" “committed conservatives” who Tomasky writes are way “off the continuum” of political debate over Barack Obama’s presidency? No one thought “he was secretly out to destroy the US.”

“Liberals assumed that Bush was doing what he, his team and their supporters believed was the right thing,” Tomasky writes in the Guardian. “There was none of this Manchurian Candidate business” peddled by conservatives “certain that they represent ‘real’ American values” and that Obama is “an ideological Typhoid Mary, a carrier of unknowable and barely comprehensible infections.” But there’s nothing to be done: Obama could leave office with everything hunky-dory, Tomasky writes, and they "would still believe we'd escaped state ownership of everything and one-world government by a whisker.”

No one thought “Bush was secretly out to destroy the US.” Yeah- he did it out in the open- it was the only honest thing he did.

Face-Of-RNC

Oct 20, 2009 12:59 PM CDT

Reader you are right where the rich and powerful want you. Your self-induced fear, and your willingness to share it with others keeps you at the mercy of those who want to own and operate your government and its military. They start and fight wars in the name of your fear, and, in the case of Iraq for example, they do it for profit. They do it to ensure all of us and our children will continue to put our tax dollars into their corporate coffers. It's been going on since the dawn of civilization. I am much more concerned about people who live their lives from the viewpoint of their fears than crooked or corrupt politicians, because it's the fear of the people that enables corruption.

Face-Of-RNC

Oct 20, 2009 12:49 PM CDT

This so-called socialism you speak of is just the American people doing for themslelves what the corporations won't do. Your entire argument leaves out the facts associated with corporate greed choking the life out of middle class and poor America. If your health care costs go down, won't you have more of your money to keep for yourself? Why is it truely American if corporations are allowed to rake 35% off the top of our health care bill, but not so if the people of America do health care for themselves at a 4% cost of overhead?